Letter to the editor: Why Trump is against immigrants
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Why does Donald Trump say he will gather immigrants into camps and deport them? He must mean illegal immigrants, because 75% of U.S. immigrants are legal. But even those illegal immigrants still do the things that most immigrants do: They work, pay taxes and add to the strength of our economy. They don’t compete with native-born high school or college graduates because they fill open jobs that employers cannot fill. They fill jobs at lower levels and higher levels. Immigrants account for over a third of the workers with a PhD or MD. Some immigrant populations have as many as 70% of their children who finish a four-year college degree. They add to our economy.
I see three reasons:
1. He thinks these immigrants are going to be mostly Democrats when they get their citizenship. Not true if you look at Texas and Florida.
2. He stands for the rule of law. Not believable because Trump forced Republicans to withdraw support for the recent bipartisan immigration reform bill which would have done much to improve legal immigration.
3. He has unacknowledged racism. He hates to see the browning of the United States, because this wave of immigration is mostly from Central/South America and Asia.
The most likely reason for Trump and the Republicans’ animus toward immigrants is a combination of all three.
I’m voting for Kamala Harris/Tim Walz. They will let new citizens join the political party of their choice, they will pass the immigration reform bill and they are not racist.
Mary Beth Diehl
Murrysville